CROSBY, Nellie (Abbett)

NELLIE ABBETT CROSBY
  Nellie Abbett Crosby, 88, 
Franklin, formerly of Edin-
burgh, died Aug. 12. She was 
a homemaker.
  Services: 10:30 a.m. Aug. 15 
in Eskew-Eaton Funeral Home,
Edinburgh, with calling from 4 to 
8 p.m. Aug. 14. Burial: Rest Haven
Cemetery, Edinburgh.
  She was the widow of Clarence
Crosby.
  Survivors: daughters Shirley
Bryant, Linda Heck; stepdaughters
Thelma Bennett, Viola, Marie
Burton; several grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and
great-great-grandchildren.

Nellie Crosby
Franklin
EDINBURGH — Nellie Crosby, 88, of
Franklin, formerly of Edinburgh,
died Saturday, Aug. 12, 2000, at
ExtendaCare in Franklin.
  Mrs. Crosby was a homemaker and
attended Edinburgh Apostolic
Tabernacle.
  Funeral will be conducted at 10:30
a.m. Tuesday at Eskew-Eaton Funeral
Home in Edinburgh with the Rev.
Mark Myers officiating. Calling
will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today.
Burial will be at Rest Haven
Cemetery in Edinburgh.
  Mrs. Crosby was born in Johnson
County May 7, 1912, the daughter of
John and Clara Jane Scott Abbett.
She married Clarence Crosby Oct.
23, 1943. He died Oct. 13, 1970.
  Survivors include daughters,
Shirley Bryant of Edinburgh and
Linda Heck of Sweetwater, Tenn.;
stepdaughters, Viola Burton of
Seymour, Marie Burton of Edinburgh
and Thelma Bennett of Westport; and
several grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and
great-great-grandchildren.
  She was preceded in death by a son,
three daughters, four brothers and
two sisters.